Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek]

by: Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543; Petrejus, Johannes, 1497-1550, publisher; Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550, engraver; Szabad, George M., associated name. DSI; Burndy Library, donor. DSI

Publication date: 1543

Topics: Astronomy

Publisher: Norimbergae : Apud Ioh. Petreium

Collection: smithsonian

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

Published also under title: Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribuntur. Nunc ... restituta ... studio d. Nicolai Mulerii

Woodcut initials. Some initals have been attributed to Hans Sebald Beham, according to the description of the Richard Green library copy sold by Christie's in 2008

Leaves printed on both sides

Leaf 52 is misnumbered as 49; leaf Q3 is mis-signed as R3

Issued with an errata leaf

Signatures: pi6 chi1 a-2C

Dibner Library. Heralds of Science (1980 ed.)

Elecresource

SCDIRB copy 39088000648568 imperfect? The title leaf paper has noticeably browned, and may have come from another copy? (or else the t.p. may have light damage, acquired from a past period on exhibition)

SCDIRB copy has the errata leaf bound in between the preliminaries (i.e. leaf pi6) and leaf [1] (3rd group; = leaf a1)

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of George M. Szabad. Handwritten pencil notes from bookseller are on the front paste-down endpaper. Some repairs have been made, and old provenance markings apparently removed, on the preliminary leaves

SCDIRB copy has a contemporary panel-stamped leather binding with raised bands; and ties wanting. "COPERN." is inked on the fore-edge. Housed in a modern beige cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered red leather spine label

Notes

various page number errors

Addeddate: 2012-05-14 13:31:20

Associated-names: Petrejus, Johannes, 1497-1550, publisher; Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550, engraver; Szabad, George M., associated name; Burndy Library, donor